Top lift holder for heels



Jan. 19, 19 32. A. J. LERNER 1,841,829-

TOP LIFT HOLDER FOR HEELS Filed April 27, l93l Iriventor v7: (1 Zak/var 4 Home y Patented Jan. 19, 1932 PATENT OFFICE ALFONS J. LERNER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN TOP LIFT HOLDER FOR HEELS Application filed April 27,

This invention relates to a holder for the top lift of a heel of a shoe, the general object of the invention being to provide means whereby the top lift when worn can be easily removed and replaced by a new one without going to a shoemaker or the like.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accofpanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure l is a side view of portion of a shoe 29 showing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is a view of the blank from which the device is formed.

Figure 3 is a view looking toward the rear part of the device.

Figure 4 is a side view of the device.

As shown in Figure 2, the device is formed of a blank A which has a substantially semicircular part 1 and a tapered tongue like part 2, the tongue being bent at its Juncture 30 with the part 1 as shown in Figures 1, 3 and 4.

The part 1 is provided with the four V-shaped tongues 3 and the two V-shaped tongues 4;, the latter tongues being arranged in the pairs of other tongues as shown in Figure 2. The

two tongues 4 bent upwardly and the four tongues 3 downwardly as shown in Figure 3, all the parts being formed by cutting the metal with V-shaped cuts as shown in Figure 2. The part 1 rests on the lower end of the heel with the tongue 2 against the front face of the heel as shown in Figure 1.

The device is fastened to the heel by a nail or the like which passes through a hole 5 in y the upper end of the tongue and another nail or the like passes through a hole 6 in the center of the part 1. The tongues 4 are driven into the bottom of the heel and the top list B has the tongues 3 embedded therein and the fastener 7 which passes through the hole 6 0 also passes through the lift.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided means whereby the lift B when worn can be easily removed and replaced by a new one and this can be done by the user or by a person other than a shoemaker. It will of course be understood that the lifts B are standardized I so that a person can buy the lift desired for each shoe.

lVhile the drawings show the invention used with a spike form of heel it can be used 50 with the cuban type and other types if desired.

In summarizing it might be said that the invention forming the subject of this application is in the form of a holder embodying a plate having rows of V-shaped incisions at opposite sides of the center of the plate and that each row of incisions consists of a central or intermediate incision of V-shaped form having the point thereof directed outward and outer V-shaped incisions having 7 the point thereof directed inward toward the longitudinal center of the plate so that when the properly served material defined by the incisions is bent outward in opposite direction to define pointed attaching elements the plate will not be unduly weakened.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

t is to be understood that changes may be so made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

In a holder for top lift for shoes, a plate having rows of V--shaped incisions at opposite sides of the longitudinal center line of the plate, each row of incisions consisting of a central V-shaped incision having the point thereof presented outward and outer V-shaped incisions having the points thereof directed inward, said incisions defining pointed attaching elements for attachment to a heel and a top lift, said plate being provided with an angularly extending attaching portion.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

ALFONS J LERNER.

Serial No. 533,287. 

